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that lived in the white house. i think it is mind boggling that it still exists and is in such great condition. that room i really love. i also really like the state dining room. not because of necessarily how it is now, although it is lovely, but that corner of the room is where jefferson's private study was and where he had his cabinet meetings. i think my next book will be looking at adams and jefferson's cabinets. that space really holds a special spot in my heart because it does not exist really anymore like it did look at the time. trying to imagine what it was is a special thing. susan both of you have only : known working with a trump administration. it's hard to compare with past presidents. you said each administration brings their own different sense of history. what about the level of interest that the trump's have and the history of the mansion? how have they express that in working with you and others? matthew the first lady has : worked with us in terms of the egg roll coming up. that is something th
that lived in the white house. i think it is mind boggling that it still exists and is in such great condition. that room i really love. i also really like the state dining room. not because of necessarily how it is now, although it is lovely, but that corner of the room is where jefferson's private study was and where he had his cabinet meetings. i think my next book will be looking at adams and jefferson's cabinets. that space really holds a special spot in my heart because it does not exist...
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a busy morning at the white house. and a busy morning for 2020 candidates making a whirlwind trip through iowa. several others focusing on winning over one of the nation's biggest unions. we will go live to both places up next. >>> also, jill biden weighing in on her husband's presidential campaign. and how he will handle attacks from president trump. >> i should say that your husband can give it as well. he called president trump a clown recently. we all remember in 2016 when he said if this is high school, we'd go back and i'd beat the hell out of him, always the ugly heest, fastest -- >> no, i spoke to him about that. >> what did you tell him? because i was going to say, is he going to get down in the mud 1234. >> no, he's not. remember what michelle said, when then go low, we go high. >> tech: at safelite autoglass, we know sooner or later... every chip will crack. this daughter was home visiting when mom saw a chip in her windshield. >> mom: honey is that a chip? >> tech: they wanted it fixed fast so they brought
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the white house informing house democrats that they have told don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, he should not testify. this is in defiance of a subpoena from the house judiciary committee. let's go live to rich edson to get reaction from the white house and the reasoning. good to see you, rich. >> the statement from the white house is saying to this, the special counsel received more than 1.4 million documents, hours of interviews. they have spoken to don mcgahn about 30 hours and this is unnecessary and claiming that the privilege extends to the former counselor to the president and he doesn't have to comply with the subpoena. the democrats are hoping he would be on the hill to discuss the mueller report and his inclusion in it. he was cited a number of teams by robert mueller on the question of obstruction of justice, whether the president had tried to thwart the investigation and the attempt to fire robert mueller. this is supposed to be something that democrats were going to ask him about tomorrow. but now the white house instructing that that won't be the case, this is a c
the white house informing house democrats that they have told don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, he should not testify. this is in defiance of a subpoena from the house judiciary committee. let's go live to rich edson to get reaction from the white house and the reasoning. good to see you, rich. >> the statement from the white house is saying to this, the special counsel received more than 1.4 million documents, hours of interviews. they have spoken to don mcgahn about 30 hours...
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the white house has said "no." clearly, the committee could hold don mcgahn in contempt, but the white house and the department of justice has said that you can't compel mcgahn to testify about his conversations with the president. look, there are lots of people who believe you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube after he testified before bob mueller for 30 hours. but mcgahn's not going to show up tomorrow. jerry nadler knows it. and maybe they're just going to have another show hearing. >> is there any chance mcgahn defies the white house and does show up. he's a private citizen? >> not tomorrow. i don't know the answer, though i would lean "no," wolf. because whether or not mcgahn thinks this is the right move, the white house doing what they're doing, provides him cover to not have to go under oath and do -- and testify. i would note, i think that is an unfortunate thing for the public, for this reason. yes, he did testify for 30 hours. we know that. one of the things he testified to is that donald trump o
the white house has said "no." clearly, the committee could hold don mcgahn in contempt, but the white house and the department of justice has said that you can't compel mcgahn to testify about his conversations with the president. look, there are lots of people who believe you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube after he testified before bob mueller for 30 hours. but mcgahn's not going to show up tomorrow. jerry nadler knows it. and maybe they're just going to have another show...
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ongoing investigations takes relates to the white house. his seeming contradiction in not telling the full truth when it came to whether or not he knew the special counsel was unhappy but i'm with you, let's say heared before the house today, he won't suddenly say you know what, that is my bad, guys. i should have told -- i'm sorry, is it cool? he has said what he is going to say. and so in some ways it is sort of -- you can keep beating that dead horse, but bill barr is not going further than he went yesterday. >> we really want to hear from mueller right now. we want to hear from don mcgahn, former white house counsel. coming up, a new report sheds light on the extraordinary steps that the fbi took to probe suspicions that russia had infiltrated the trump campaign. but which of the 21 democrats running for thas the best chanc of unseating president trump? we have a you into cnn poll. new. s just one free hearing test at his local miracle ear helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to h
ongoing investigations takes relates to the white house. his seeming contradiction in not telling the full truth when it came to whether or not he knew the special counsel was unhappy but i'm with you, let's say heared before the house today, he won't suddenly say you know what, that is my bad, guys. i should have told -- i'm sorry, is it cool? he has said what he is going to say. and so in some ways it is sort of -- you can keep beating that dead horse, but bill barr is not going further than...
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is not backing down. >> the white house and the department of justice is enabling the white house to try to evade accountability to the people. to say in effect the president is a tyrant and dictator with no limit. we'll use any legal power we have with respect to mr. muller and mr. mcgahn, to anybody to do our job of holding administration accountable. >> democrats have issued subpoenas to nearly ten current and former trump officials among them the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin is still refusing to release six years of the president's tax returns to the house ways and means committee and has until friday to reply. today mnuchin was asked about that deadline. >> how do you plan to respond to chairman neal's claims? >> we haven't had an official response yet. we will compile with the timing of it, i think you can pretty much guess how we're going to but i haven't made a decision. the democrats are trying weaponize the irs. it's a very, very dangerous issue. >> mnuchin had not spoken to the president or white house about how to handle the demand for records and we're learnin
is not backing down. >> the white house and the department of justice is enabling the white house to try to evade accountability to the people. to say in effect the president is a tyrant and dictator with no limit. we'll use any legal power we have with respect to mr. muller and mr. mcgahn, to anybody to do our job of holding administration accountable. >> democrats have issued subpoenas to nearly ten current and former trump officials among them the secretary of the treasury steve...
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>> reporter: fred, the white house, according to sources, pressured former white house counsel don mcgahn to come out publicly and say that the president did not obstruct justice. sources tell cnn that mcgahn told special counsel robert mueller's investigators that he believed the president didn't obstruct justice. mcgahn, through his attorney, declined to announce it publicly. sources also told cnn that the president was upset about mcgahn's refusal to come out and say that publicly. this all underscores the measure that is the white house has taken to try to portray mueller's report as exonerating the president, even though it explicitly did not on the question of obstruction. an attorney though for mcgahn saying that at the time, the former white house counsel did not perceive the white house as threatening mcgahn to make that public statement. fred? >> sarah westwood, thank you so much. >>> with me now, a former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst. and lynn swede from the "times." being okay with the attorney general investigating joe biden. this as joe biden has his meteoric ris
>> reporter: fred, the white house, according to sources, pressured former white house counsel don mcgahn to come out publicly and say that the president did not obstruct justice. sources tell cnn that mcgahn told special counsel robert mueller's investigators that he believed the president didn't obstruct justice. mcgahn, through his attorney, declined to announce it publicly. sources also told cnn that the president was upset about mcgahn's refusal to come out and say that publicly....
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the white house thinking is this isn't normal. why would we put a cabinet official when an elected member of congress can do it. >> there is a bit of irony for the first time in two-plus years the white house wants things in washington to be normal. >> the attorney general's testimony and the special counsel's report. we'll break down where these two friends contradict each other. one stitch. one load. one breakthrough at a time. everything that matters, made better. you know them by their work. they know us by ours. everything, built for those who are on to bigger things. well, here's to first dates! you look amazing. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck... that's when you know, it's half-washed. try downy fabric conditioner. unlike detergent alone, downy helps prevent stretching by conditioning and smoothing fibers, so clothes look newer, longer. downy and it's done. like.. pnc easy lock, so you can easily lock your credit card when its maximum limit differs from its vertical limit. and c
the white house thinking is this isn't normal. why would we put a cabinet official when an elected member of congress can do it. >> there is a bit of irony for the first time in two-plus years the white house wants things in washington to be normal. >> the attorney general's testimony and the special counsel's report. we'll break down where these two friends contradict each other. one stitch. one load. one breakthrough at a time. everything that matters, made better. you know them...
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white house stonewalling into the inquiries. the question is whether the legal, narrow legal reason they might give might be just because of the mcgahn refusing to testify. the overall point again is russia, trump, stonewalling the investigations. the question is i think whether they can make the case this is specifically about the stonewalling part, the white house refusing testimony and refusing to comply with requests for investigation and not about the broader russian question. you look at what trump is saying, he continues to say no collusion, no obstruction, let's move on. >> that's my point. the tax returns, that's a serious constitutional matter. if congress has the right under law to subpoena tax returns and he refuses to give them over, we have a constitutional crisis. we have a confrontation between the executive branch and legislative branch that is hard to sort through. that's why it is important if you want to be serious about this to go at things. what the white house is doing, we're not complying with anything. s
white house stonewalling into the inquiries. the question is whether the legal, narrow legal reason they might give might be just because of the mcgahn refusing to testify. the overall point again is russia, trump, stonewalling the investigations. the question is i think whether they can make the case this is specifically about the stonewalling part, the white house refusing testimony and refusing to comply with requests for investigation and not about the broader russian question. you look at...
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>> it's a little card that allows you to get into the white house through security to go to white house press brief wrrings go to meetings with senior administration officials in the white house. it's a valuable thing to have. and once you have it, you really should do everything possible to make sure that it's renewed. however, when i got my hard pass renewed under the trump administration that was in 2017, and i got it because one of the nbc cameraman at the white house said once you have it, don't lose it so go and get it, so i got it. but i never went to the white house. so when i got an e-mail from the white house on march 19th saying our records show that you haven't been -- in the last 180 days you've been to the white house 50% less of the time, therefore your pass is expired, i didn't think anything of it. i thought, well, they got me. i haven't been since january -- actually april of 2017. so, fine, okay you can have it. but it wasn't until i read dana's column this week where i realized oh, holy smokes it wasn't just that this was a systematic thing, and that's why i retweete
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white house. and i remember just listening to the details of that meing and really being in a state of shock, that's when i realizedhi thatwas not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of understanding about how do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we were doing. >> narrator: once again cotyy d his notes of the meeting on his laptop. s>> comey begins opening laptop and typing down words, the phras that he can remember the president said whcause he's that scared o this is that has just happened.e >>'s an old adage in the organization that, "if it happened and you didn't write it wn, it didn't happen." and so i think that he was thinking, at that time, that, you know, "the president is at lest walking himself down t trail to an investigation where he could become subject to investigationand i need to be able to document what has happened." >> for the first time, fbi director jes comey will reveal... >> narrator: but comey didn't back down. >> comey will be appearing before a
white house. and i remember just listening to the details of that meing and really being in a state of shock, that's when i realizedhi thatwas not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of understanding about how do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we were doing. >> narrator: once again cotyy d his notes of the meeting on his laptop. s>> comey begins opening laptop and typing down words, the phras that he can remember the president said whcause he's...
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we've seen a number of white house officials on the white house lawn today touting them including larry kudlow and sarah sanders. the sustained economic growth which, let's note, began under barack obama, but has certainly not slowed down under this president and it's frustrating to his advisers that he can't stay focused on this, when this is his best argument. democrats recognize this too, inherently it's tough to beat any incumbent when the economy is this good. >> indeed. and michael steele, the last time we had jobs numbers, an unemployment rate this low, americans were landing on the moon for the first time. that's something that kevin hassett pointed out from the white house today. and he's absolutely right. now, they're going to say -- the president's already going to say that this is all him, and as jonathan just pointed out, he inherited a rising economy from barack obama after all of the hard work that was done after the 2008 crash that obama inherited that mess. but that said, they certainly can argue that the corporate tax cut helped on the upside in terms of not that it tr
we've seen a number of white house officials on the white house lawn today touting them including larry kudlow and sarah sanders. the sustained economic growth which, let's note, began under barack obama, but has certainly not slowed down under this president and it's frustrating to his advisers that he can't stay focused on this, when this is his best argument. democrats recognize this too, inherently it's tough to beat any incumbent when the economy is this good. >> indeed. and michael...
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the white house as white house counsel. as far as we know, the letter has not been officially sent to capitol hill blocking the testimony. that's the expectation today because the deadline is tomorrow for the system. >> one more, pam, don mcgahn himself, do we have anything from him? what's he saying? >> we don't have anything from him. his lawyer has been in touch with the white house. we know that previously with the document request that was blocked, the white house sent a letter to don mcgahn's lettawye. that's the expectation for how this is going to play out. clearly mcgahn i'm told is deferring to the white house and will not fight anything the white house wants him to do. in this case, blocking his testimony either through executive privilege as the white house did previously with the document request or through the assertion of immunity. there is a doj dock run and memo that makes the case of why presidential advisers should not be compelled to testify to congress. that's one of the areas the white house and doj ha
the white house as white house counsel. as far as we know, the letter has not been officially sent to capitol hill blocking the testimony. that's the expectation today because the deadline is tomorrow for the system. >> one more, pam, don mcgahn himself, do we have anything from him? what's he saying? >> we don't have anything from him. his lawyer has been in touch with the white house. we know that previously with the document request that was blocked, the white house sent a letter...
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official, white house officials over here at the white house, and the president said this is not being done for me. this is being done for the presidency and so the president is essentially saying what his team is saying this is about protecting the interests of the presidency. but, wolf, i thought it was also interesting, you know, the way he answered my question about whether or not his administration is stonewalling the congress. at the very end i tried to ask a follow-up as to whether or not he's will and whether his team is willing to battle it out in the courts and didn't answer that question and turned to the next question at that point. one thing we should also point out he was asked about this judge's ruling earlier this afternoon that said that his longtime accountants had to turn over financial records to members of congress. wolf, the president there said that he blamed all of this, this ruling on an obama appointed judge and so, you know, that is one of his go tos when he's confronted with a ruling that goes against him and his interests and his agenda he typically blames
official, white house officials over here at the white house, and the president said this is not being done for me. this is being done for the presidency and so the president is essentially saying what his team is saying this is about protecting the interests of the presidency. but, wolf, i thought it was also interesting, you know, the way he answered my question about whether or not his administration is stonewalling the congress. at the very end i tried to ask a follow-up as to whether or...
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this is the style of this white house. this is the style of the white house to want to fight, to want to have a foil, in particular, a democratic foil and the foils here, of course, are nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, the folks who are over these committees and over the house democrats. i think this will continue from this white house, because it isn't clear where this goes. it's not clear how long this fight lasts. it's not clear how you resolve it. what is the real power of the democrats to actually compel people? are they willing to go as far as susan is talking about here? or as barr joked about, this idea of handcuffs and putting people in jail. i guess there's a little congressional jail some place on the hill. but for now, this is a white house that likes to have this defiant posture. and also, i think, the zroerts, too. the republican voters. the idea that this is a place that they're under siege. >> bianna, the white house argues that the democrats are certainly trying to do a do-over on the mueller report. they say t
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white house counsel, don mcgahn. what's the latest on that? this is supposed to take place, i think, next week. is mcgahn going to show up? >> yeah, well, that's the big question. and if you look last week, the white house, through the white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney actually instructed don mcgahn not to comply with that subpoena for documents. and so i think that going forward in this next week, we can probably expect to see something similar from the white house in terms of don mcgahn's testimony before the committee. it wouldn't be a surprise if the white house instructed mcgahn not to testify in this. i think what's so interesting in all of this is you're seeing -- a lot of times you see the president say something and it's not quite backed up by white house action, but we're seeing exactly the opposite here, where the president says, i'm going to fight all the subpoenas, we're going to fight every inch of democratic oversight, and you're now seeing in this letter from the white house counsel exactly th
white house counsel, don mcgahn. what's the latest on that? this is supposed to take place, i think, next week. is mcgahn going to show up? >> yeah, well, that's the big question. and if you look last week, the white house, through the white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney actually instructed don mcgahn not to comply with that subpoena for documents. and so i think that going forward in this next week, we can probably expect to see something similar from the white house in terms of...
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just by the white house. the inspector general report on this spying program which was a program code name stellar wind, this report was put together by inspectors general from five different agencies. on this matter it concluded with this quote. we believe that the justice department and fbi officials who resisted the pressure to recertify the stellar wind program because of their beliefs that aspects of the program were not legally supportable, those officials acted -- including robert mueller and james comey and james baker. single them out by name to say they acted, quote, in accord with the highest professional standards of the justice department. when james comey became director of the fbi years later he tapped that same james baker, praised for his integrity in that earlier confrontation with the republican white house, he picked james baker to be his general counsel, to be the top legal official at the fbi. that is a position of immense importance and trust at that agency. a person who serves as gener
just by the white house. the inspector general report on this spying program which was a program code name stellar wind, this report was put together by inspectors general from five different agencies. on this matter it concluded with this quote. we believe that the justice department and fbi officials who resisted the pressure to recertify the stellar wind program because of their beliefs that aspects of the program were not legally supportable, those officials acted -- including robert...
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joining me to get the latest from the white house is chief white house correspondent halle jackson. halle, it's sort of above our pay grade to figure out who will win this battle. particularly if some of these debates go to the supreme court. >> nothing is above your pay grade, my friend, to be clear. >> but the white house seems to be clear on his e its position. >> reporter: sure, this is a position consistent with the sources and officials i have been talking to over the last several weeks. it is not a surprise to anyone that covers this white house that they are, in fact, saying they may want to assert executive privilege down the road as it relates to, for example, these documents for former white house counsel don mcgahn, this is a white house that is leaning into this fight with democrats, why? because there is a sentiment, some of the advisers in trump world, this could be politically advantageous to him. it is no coincidence mitch mcconnell is delivering almost verbatim the white house said as well. the president is backing up from the supporters, his base, but people on ca
joining me to get the latest from the white house is chief white house correspondent halle jackson. halle, it's sort of above our pay grade to figure out who will win this battle. particularly if some of these debates go to the supreme court. >> nothing is above your pay grade, my friend, to be clear. >> but the white house seems to be clear on his e its position. >> reporter: sure, this is a position consistent with the sources and officials i have been talking to over the...
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take a listen. >> the white house and the department of justice is enabling the white house to try to evade all accountability to the american people. saying, in effect, the president is a tyrant and dictator with no limit on his power. >> matt, back to jake's point, what are they going to do about it? what can they do about it? >> they're going to have to move as aggressively as they can in the courts. i don't think that's going to be enough. the strategy they laid out after getting the mueller report. they'll bring witnesses forward and letting the american people see them on television and hear what they have to say and judge whether or not they're being truthful. the problem is the president has completely stymied that approach by preventing witnesses from coming forward, preventing documents from being turned over. every day they're fighting over access to democraticments and witnesses, instead of whether the president broke the law or committed high crimes or created misdemeanor, they're losing the fight. it's not great for the white house to be covering things up but better tha
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and we still have a white house that basically denies that this took place, and we have a white house that is so afraid of donald trump's wrath that when the former secretary of homeland security said let's get a cabinet meeting together, to actually plan for 2020, the white house chief of staff said let's not have that meeting because it might offend the president. this is outrageous, and it is candidly beyond the pale, and why our committee, bipartisan, and why this congress needs to make sure it doesn't happen again. we need to make a law in place that if you receive assistance from a foreign power during an election, you have an obligation to report that. that we make sure that we have our election systems safe and secure with a paper audit trail and that the large companies who have 90%, three companies have 90% of our voter files, there's some way to have security checks on the files. and that we have some rules of the road around facebook, youtube, twitter, in terms of how they are not going to be manipulated on a going forward basis. every american, i don't care what political
and we still have a white house that basically denies that this took place, and we have a white house that is so afraid of donald trump's wrath that when the former secretary of homeland security said let's get a cabinet meeting together, to actually plan for 2020, the white house chief of staff said let's not have that meeting because it might offend the president. this is outrageous, and it is candidly beyond the pale, and why our committee, bipartisan, and why this congress needs to make...
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the white house will try to stop that as well. whatever it is, it will prolong -- it will slow down any type of momentum the democrats think they have. >> it's dangerous to get any legal analysis off twitter, i'm going to throw it to you anyway. what about the idea that the white house has already waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to spend 30 hours with robert mueller contemporaneous notes about anything that went down in the sordid west wing? >> what the white house would say to that is the difference between intraand interbranch sharing. in the case of the mueller investigation, mueller was part of the executive branch, if the white house shared stuff with mueller, it stayed within the executive. in this case, you're bringing in congress, which is a different branch. and what the white house would say, is that they did not wave privilege by sharing it within its own branch. so a little bit complicated. but basically the fact that mueller ultimately was part of the justice department, the justice department answer
the white house will try to stop that as well. whatever it is, it will prolong -- it will slow down any type of momentum the democrats think they have. >> it's dangerous to get any legal analysis off twitter, i'm going to throw it to you anyway. what about the idea that the white house has already waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to spend 30 hours with robert mueller contemporaneous notes about anything that went down in the sordid west wing? >> what the white house...
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what is going on at the white house? guest: the president hired john bolton fully knowing his position on these middle east conflicts. while he disagrees with them, i think he likes the strength that he projects. again, if you look at this through the prism of the madman theory, he likes that john bolton can get out there and press this hardline for his administration. what the president does not like is when an aide is perceived to be guiding him in a certain direction. over the last week, you have seen president push back against the notion that he may want a conflict with iran, because he does not like the media coverage saying that john bolton is pushing him in this direction, whether it is true or not. that is a source of a lot of this mixed information. i think a lot of lawmakers will be eager to hear a clear sense of what is going on. with and, really quickly, venezuela, north korea, they wanted briefings and did not necessarily get briefings. why is this situation different? guest: the situation may be different
what is going on at the white house? guest: the president hired john bolton fully knowing his position on these middle east conflicts. while he disagrees with them, i think he likes the strength that he projects. again, if you look at this through the prism of the madman theory, he likes that john bolton can get out there and press this hardline for his administration. what the president does not like is when an aide is perceived to be guiding him in a certain direction. over the last week, you...
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democrats and the white house. quite frankly, after the initial barr summary letter, the chatter about impeachment got pretty quiet and democrats were making clear to us they didn't necessarily think it was going to be worth the political price. the speaker, nancy pelosi, has continued to be careful in how she's talked about it. she recently said she thinks the president is trying to goad them into holding impeachment hearings. the reality is they don't have that many tools left to try to force the white house to comply here. jerry nadler, who has similarly been careful in how he's chosen his words around impeachment seemed to take a step forward on this today. take a look. >> the president's posture now is making it impossible to rule out impeachment or anything else. the letter we got from the white house yesterday is beyond outrageous. >> reporter: he, of course, was talking about the long letter from white house counsel that outlined why it was that they weren't going to give democrats anything that they wanted
democrats and the white house. quite frankly, after the initial barr summary letter, the chatter about impeachment got pretty quiet and democrats were making clear to us they didn't necessarily think it was going to be worth the political price. the speaker, nancy pelosi, has continued to be careful in how she's talked about it. she recently said she thinks the president is trying to goad them into holding impeachment hearings. the reality is they don't have that many tools left to try to force...
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by the white house. take a listen. >> the trump administration has decided to say a blanket no, no to any oversight whatsoever, no witnesses, no documents, nothing. claim executive privilege over things that it knows there is no basis for, there's no executive privilege over the hundreds of thousands of documents regarding events that tax place before donald trump was president. you can't have a privilege, an executive privilege when you're not the executive. they know vast categories are inapplicatible so they're stonewalling. >> i'm turn to the lawyer to my left to talk about this. we saw the white house invoking this during the course of the week. how ironclad is it? he's making a distinction saying that -- there has to be a reasonable case for it to be executive privilege, otherwise it's stone wouling. -- stone walling. your take? >> hot garbage. it's a terrible argument and won't hold up in court. once it gets to court -- that's where the democrats need to move faster. that's where the entire countr
by the white house. take a listen. >> the trump administration has decided to say a blanket no, no to any oversight whatsoever, no witnesses, no documents, nothing. claim executive privilege over things that it knows there is no basis for, there's no executive privilege over the hundreds of thousands of documents regarding events that tax place before donald trump was president. you can't have a privilege, an executive privilege when you're not the executive. they know vast categories are...
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the driveway gambit works for the white house. my hope is they go out and say, i don't care where you are. here are the hard questions. we are not going to let you get your message out until you answer the questions we think are important >> joe lockhart, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. he's a sports gambler by trade. james holzhauer is money. what is behind this historic run on "jeopardy!." that's next. don't just dream about your next vacation. book your next vacation. ♪ be a booker at booking.com this and even this.hark, i deep clean messes like this. but i don't have to clean this, because the self-cleaning brush roll removes hair, while i clean. - [announcer] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. >> announcer: your "new day" weather brought to you by the shark self-cleaning brushroll. >>> all right. overnight tropical cyclone fanni made landfall in india. this image reveals how intense, how big the storm is. more than a million people have been evacuated on india's east coast. some 100 million peopl
the driveway gambit works for the white house. my hope is they go out and say, i don't care where you are. here are the hard questions. we are not going to let you get your message out until you answer the questions we think are important >> joe lockhart, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. he's a sports gambler by trade. james holzhauer is money. what is behind this historic run on "jeopardy!." that's next. don't just dream about your next vacation. book your next vacation....
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the white house says that don mcgahn, the president's former white house counsel doesn't have the legal right to provide documents subpoenaed by congress. do you believe this is a valid legal argument? >> well, i don't think so. i think don mcgahn -- frankly wing it's the president who has waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to testify pot special counsel and share things to the president's own personal attorneys. that's an issue that may end up being litigated in court. more broadly, it's pretty striking that just a few weeks ago, the president was claiming complete and total exoneration and is now taking steps to prevent don mcgahn, the white house counsel who provided so much information to the special counsel from even appearing in front of congress. i do think this is one of those instances where i'll repeat a line i said a number of times before. if the president's truly innocent, he ought to act like it and allow white house counsel mcgahn to testify to congress. >> one of the arguments they make over at the white house is that the president allowed don mcgahn to sp
the white house says that don mcgahn, the president's former white house counsel doesn't have the legal right to provide documents subpoenaed by congress. do you believe this is a valid legal argument? >> well, i don't think so. i think don mcgahn -- frankly wing it's the president who has waived executive privilege by allowing don mcgahn to testify pot special counsel and share things to the president's own personal attorneys. that's an issue that may end up being litigated in court....
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. >>> the former white house counsel plans to defy a subpoena today. could a separate ruling change the course of stone walling from the white house. >>> biden, he was born here but he left you, folks. >> the president in pennsylvania setting his sights squarely on joe biden as internal polling shows the president lagging in states he has to win. >>> major flooding in the midwest, evacuations and water rescues in oklahoma a day after a string of tornadoes hits the region. >>> did boeing spend decades concealing design flaws in its planes? a new lawsuit claims it did. good morning, welcome to "early start," i'm dave briggs. >> good morning, i'm christine romans, tuesday, may 21st, it is exactly 4:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin in washington, it's the judicial branch that may have delivered the most consequential blow on monday. a federal judge ruling president trump's long time accounting firm must turn over his financial records. it's a sweeping judgment backing congress's rights to hold a president accountable. democrats will no doubt wrapping thems
. >>> the former white house counsel plans to defy a subpoena today. could a separate ruling change the course of stone walling from the white house. >>> biden, he was born here but he left you, folks. >> the president in pennsylvania setting his sights squarely on joe biden as internal polling shows the president lagging in states he has to win. >>> major flooding in the midwest, evacuations and water rescues in oklahoma a day after a string of tornadoes hits...
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house, chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. let me start with you. that's the question to ask. what is the administration trying to do? there was an iran deal, the president campaigned against it. his national security adviser hasn't been in favor of that deal. now president trump talks of threatening to them but talking to them, getting negotiation, getting nuclear weapons out of their hands. what's the end goal? >> reporter: this is classic donald trump, notably on the foreign policy front. the negotiating tactic with kim jong-un, fire and fury interspersed with being in love. it is similar with the iranian regime. the president in that fox news interview taped it last week, prior to the tweets talking about warning of the end of iran and that of course sparking the foreign minister's fiery response. it is mixed messaging and back and forth. this is a president as his advisers will say likes to keep adversaries off balance. this appears to be if you want to call it strategy, a strategy to do just that. there's also the person
house, chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. let me start with you. that's the question to ask. what is the administration trying to do? there was an iran deal, the president campaigned against it. his national security adviser hasn't been in favor of that deal. now president trump talks of threatening to them but talking to them, getting negotiation, getting nuclear weapons out of their hands. what's the end goal? >> reporter: this is classic donald trump, notably on the...
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whether trump and the white house will try to stop him from doing so. here's what the president had to say about that today. >> will you allow robert mueller to testify? >> well, i'm going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and he'll make a decision on that. bob mueller's no friend of mine. i had conflicts with him. we had somebody that is in love with james comey. he liked james comey. they were good friends. >> this is a potential reversal from what trump had indicated over the weekend when he wrote that mueller should not testify. earlier this evening james comey who was fired exactly two years ago today had this to say about mueller and about trump's remarks. >> i respect him. i don't think we have that kind of relationship. >> you think mueller should testify? >> of course. and explain his thinking. the president says this report is a complete exoneration of him. why on earth wouldn't the special counsel be permitted to testify? >> tonight trump is also coming to the defense of his son, donald trump junior who is now facing a subp
whether trump and the white house will try to stop him from doing so. here's what the president had to say about that today. >> will you allow robert mueller to testify? >> well, i'm going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and he'll make a decision on that. bob mueller's no friend of mine. i had conflicts with him. we had somebody that is in love with james comey. he liked james comey. they were good friends. >> this is a potential reversal from what trump...
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what does this move by the white house mean? >> well, everybody remember what happened to your own jim acosta. he went to court, and the judge said you have to give him husband credentials back. you have this haphazard system for how you revoke credentials. guess what, here's comes the white house trying to put in an organized system and said we're going to kick out anyone who has not been there 90 out of the last 180 calendar days. guess what, this eliminates most of the white house press corps because even the president isn't there that often. it eliminated the entire white house team for "the washington post," for example. >> i want to make sure that's not lost on folks. that that standard eliminated the entire "washington post" team from their hard passes. but then they are factoring these exemptions or exceptions. >> they gave exceptions to whoever they wanted to give exceptions to, you know, people on the beat, or others. they requested exceptions for my colleagues at the post and for me. they granted it to my colleagues b
what does this move by the white house mean? >> well, everybody remember what happened to your own jim acosta. he went to court, and the judge said you have to give him husband credentials back. you have this haphazard system for how you revoke credentials. guess what, here's comes the white house trying to put in an organized system and said we're going to kick out anyone who has not been there 90 out of the last 180 calendar days. guess what, this eliminates most of the white house...
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what the white house is saying. how do you think the week is going to play out on this topic once the briefing happens? what happens after that? katherine: i think information is what the lawmakers are craving now about the administration plan. i think they will end up formulating later in the week their views on that. i think a lot of them are saying we want more information, more answers, why are these military crafts heading toward the region? why have people been evacuated out of iraq? i don't think they have the information to develop an opinion on any white house plan because they are not clear on what that is. host:host: a little bit on the dynamic we read earlier today usa today piece that suggested if president trump does not want military action against iran wide it -- why did he hire john bolton? what is going on? jordan:jordan: the president hired john bolton knowing his position on these middle east conflicts. while he disagrees with them i think he likes the strength he projects. if you look at who the
what the white house is saying. how do you think the week is going to play out on this topic once the briefing happens? what happens after that? katherine: i think information is what the lawmakers are craving now about the administration plan. i think they will end up formulating later in the week their views on that. i think a lot of them are saying we want more information, more answers, why are these military crafts heading toward the region? why have people been evacuated out of iraq? i...
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you asked him about any comruks with the white house about those cases. you move on. that's the answer you're expecting. then i wanted the attorney general start to crawl back and change the no like he realized i'd better change that into an i'm not sure, i don't recall because there are a bunch of people in the white house who might some day be saying yes, they discussed those cases. >> and he could see almost in his mind's eye six months from now the rerun of that answer and his being held responsible for lying to the congress. but here's the important point. >> you just, you knew what you had, right? as an experienced prosecutor when someone wants to go back and change a no, you knew what you were chasing? >> i knew that he had had conversations with people in the white house and the reason that i was so struck by it was that reading the mueller report, one of the signs of obstruction of justice is the fact that in fact, there was an ongoing pattern of white house officials talking to sessions and trying to shut down the investigation. so we're seeing the same play
you asked him about any comruks with the white house about those cases. you move on. that's the answer you're expecting. then i wanted the attorney general start to crawl back and change the no like he realized i'd better change that into an i'm not sure, i don't recall because there are a bunch of people in the white house who might some day be saying yes, they discussed those cases. >> and he could see almost in his mind's eye six months from now the rerun of that answer and his being...
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left the white house. and i remember just listening to the tails of that meeting an really being in a state of shock, that's when i realized that this was not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of undersnding about how we do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we weng. >> narrator: once again comey typed his notes of the meeting on his laptop. >> comey begins opening hisyp laptop andg down words, the phrases that he can remember the president said's because hat scared of what this is that has just happened. >> there's an old adage in the organization that, "if it happened and you didn't write id down, itt happen." and so i think that he was thinking, at that time, that, you know, "the president is at least walking himself down this trail to an investigation where he could become subject to investigation, and i need to be able to document what has happened." w for the first time, fbi director james coml reveal... >> narrator: but comey didn't back down. >> comeyill be appearing bef
left the white house. and i remember just listening to the tails of that meeting an really being in a state of shock, that's when i realized that this was not simply a lack of sophistication or a lack of undersnding about how we do our work. >> it was an active effort to influence what we weng. >> narrator: once again comey typed his notes of the meeting on his laptop. >> comey begins opening hisyp laptop andg down words, the phrases that he can remember the president said's...
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what is clear to us through our reporting from the white house team is, number one, that the white house got a bit of a heads up on the fact that he was going to make this statement. and also, that the white house will not make any statements until after they hear what mr. mueller has to say. one thing i can tell you from my own personal experience in my time covering the justice department and the supreme court, bob mueller appears to be at least reasonably fond of making exit statements. and i know that because i interviewed him when he left the fbi in a round robin with a number of other journalists from around town. so the question, of course, we've been told for a while that he was about to leave any day now. the question is whether this would be the appropriate time for mr. mueller to make an exit statement, if you will, as he leaves the office of the special counsel. that's just based on past experience and no direct knowledge, though i have raised the question with the office of the special counsel, jim. >> interesting possibility. and again, as you say, we don't know. but is tha
what is clear to us through our reporting from the white house team is, number one, that the white house got a bit of a heads up on the fact that he was going to make this statement. and also, that the white house will not make any statements until after they hear what mr. mueller has to say. one thing i can tell you from my own personal experience in my time covering the justice department and the supreme court, bob mueller appears to be at least reasonably fond of making exit statements. and...
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that's from the white house. again, we're going to go back to the committee when they return at about 2:30 eastern or so. we'll show you some of the earlier deliberations of the committee, but let's get to your calls and your thoughts on what you've seen and heard so far. in spokane, washington this is pat on the democrats line. >> good morning. >> hi there, pat. go ahead. >> caller: well, i watch this every day. it's been going on far too longment ilong. i'm tired of the president sticking his finger in everything that goes on and trying to interrupt lawful proceedings. it's just -- it gets so old. he's tried everything to the point where he even has the -- bill barr working for him. that's the only reason he was hired, i do truly believe that. and you can see it in the way that he's doing things. it's ridiculous. and the republicans who always have to sit there and disagree with everything and try to -- they just aren't working with the democrats. it's never going to get better, i don't think. i think we need t
that's from the white house. again, we're going to go back to the committee when they return at about 2:30 eastern or so. we'll show you some of the earlier deliberations of the committee, but let's get to your calls and your thoughts on what you've seen and heard so far. in spokane, washington this is pat on the democrats line. >> good morning. >> hi there, pat. go ahead. >> caller: well, i watch this every day. it's been going on far too longment ilong. i'm tired of the...
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house counsel. >> maybe not this white house counsel. >> you talk about walking in to work at the white house every day and you did that during some of the most challenging times in the history of the united states, after 9/11 and the war on terror , talk to us about being part of a white house during this unprecedented legal time. you were really treading in uncharted legal water, having to make unique, novel decisions on behalf of the white house and on behalf of justice so talk to us a little bit about assessing those issues and relying on the people that were around you. >> the job of the white house counsel is not to make the final determination and with respect to top legal issues, live surveillance like those were not legal decisions by those involved in white house counsel. what i would do as a general matter is when a policy issue goes up like the ones i just described, i would get lawyers and affected agencies to come to the west wing and we would debate them. for a long time. obviously would have someone from justice, oftentimes the head of the criminal division. someone from
house counsel. >> maybe not this white house counsel. >> you talk about walking in to work at the white house every day and you did that during some of the most challenging times in the history of the united states, after 9/11 and the war on terror , talk to us about being part of a white house during this unprecedented legal time. you were really treading in uncharted legal water, having to make unique, novel decisions on behalf of the white house and on behalf of justice so talk...
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other white house officials. there's been this building of tension between the administration and house democrats over a litany of issues. >> it's very clear what we're seeing is bill barr and the department of justice, they don't want to be pushed around here. i don't think -- what we have seen from bill barr is he's not afraid to answer questions and say what's on his mind. he gave some very interesting answers. he knew what he was doing today. i think laura knows this best, the department of justice are saying enough is enough. we're not going to let you push us around. that's ultimately, i think, what this is all about. >> you heard nadler say the trump administration cannot dictate to the house of representatives how to conduct a congressional hearing. >> they can't. what's going to happen? people are defying subpoenas. who are going to hold all these people responsible for not responding to subpoenas? for not appearing to congress? what's the recourse here? >> heit is criminal, is it civi? this will drag ou
other white house officials. there's been this building of tension between the administration and house democrats over a litany of issues. >> it's very clear what we're seeing is bill barr and the department of justice, they don't want to be pushed around here. i don't think -- what we have seen from bill barr is he's not afraid to answer questions and say what's on his mind. he gave some very interesting answers. he knew what he was doing today. i think laura knows this best, the...
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was the white house counsel. is someone who had a key eye on whether or not this president at least tried to obstruct justice. when you hear manu mention potential immunity, would that apply? >> it's up to a court. ultimately i think this is a long shot effort to keep the american people from hearing from don mcgahn who can give us i think based on the mueller report the closest firsthand view of obstruction of justice. the person who trump told to have mueller fired and later told mcgahn to lie about it. ultimately contempt has just become the symbolic thing, maybe congress will hold him in contempt. maybe not. this needs to end up in the courts and a judge needs to decide on the executive privilege claim. i don't think it will succeed in courts. >> again, listening to you, he is a private citizen now. >> yes. >> how would that impact him? what would be at stake for him to defy the president or not? >> it's an interesting twist. because the conversations that are arguely privileged happened when he was white hou
was the white house counsel. is someone who had a key eye on whether or not this president at least tried to obstruct justice. when you hear manu mention potential immunity, would that apply? >> it's up to a court. ultimately i think this is a long shot effort to keep the american people from hearing from don mcgahn who can give us i think based on the mueller report the closest firsthand view of obstruction of justice. the person who trump told to have mueller fired and later told mcgahn...
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the white house nsinitial declid to identify china and huawei as the intended target. shortly after the order was issued, the commerce department added huawei to the left list of companies. the company says if it's restricted from doing business in america, the u.s. will be left behind in the 5g technology race. >>> later today, the white house plans to release a broad outline of its new immigration reform spearheaded by jared kushner. it will address securing points of entry, increasing border barriers and a merit points system. it will not deal with daca, which democrats insist they want resolved as part of a deal. it also admits to discussion of family separations at the border. low skilled immigrants or the 11 million undocumented immigrants already in the u.s. >>> the administration wants to address border security and move toward a merit based system, which gives preference to skilled and educated immigrants. it also signals a shift away from immigrants coming to the u.s. based on family ties. the plan is short on concrete details and many key republicans are not
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abby, the white house tonight, what is their thinking. >> well erin right now the white house, they have their eyes on the iward was, as president trump puts it impeachment. just in the minutes after mueller gave his statement today. sources were telling us that president was gearing up for a fight. his message to democrats who might be tempted to head to the impeachment side of this was basically bring it on. the you president views this as something that can be politically advantageous to him, something that can help him with his base. as a source put it the president believes the american people will view impeachment proceeding as a scam and another senior white house official told me earlier that the white house's view is that in will help them in 2020 in terms of oh, retaking the house of representatives. now that can all very well be a very poly anna view of the situation trying to spin this as a positive for president trump. but the white house is also just trying to spin what robert mueller said. sarah hawk bee sanders, white house press secretary repeatedly said that mueller sho
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hogan gidley outside the white house today. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. >> harris: despite speaker pelosi's warning, the democrats must own the center lane to be president trump, 22020 candidates are suggesting we should prosecute gun owners who refuse to give up their assault weapons. is that too extreme for a party trying to win back the nation? >> i think most americans agree that these weapons of war should not be on our streets. ♪ (ding) hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i'm a car thief... what?! i'm here to steal your car because, well, that's my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice. so get allstate... and be better protected from mayhem... like me. ♪ breathe freely fast, with vicks sinex. my congestion's gone. i can breathe again! ahhhh i can breathe again! ughh.. vicks sinex, breathe on >> harris: an off-duty police officer in san antonio saved a woman f
hogan gidley outside the white house today. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. >> harris: despite speaker pelosi's warning, the democrats must own the center lane to be president trump, 22020 candidates are suggesting we should prosecute gun owners who refuse to give up their assault weapons. is that too extreme for a party trying to win back the nation? >> i think most americans agree that these weapons of war should not be on our streets. ♪ (ding) hey, who are...
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an administration official revealing that the white house asked former white house counsel don mcgahn to say publicly that president trump did not obstruct justice and mcgahn refused. a source familiar with the president said he was upset with mcgahn's refusal. the story was first reported in "the wall street journal." "the new york times" has reporting that the white house made the request to mcgahn at least twice in the last month. mcgahn was a key witness for robert mueller. he was mentioned in the report more than 500 times. according to the mueller report, president trump sought to have mcgahn fire mueller. mcgahn refused to do that as well but the president denied that ever happened. joining us is the reporter who first broke the story, rebecca ballhouse. rebecca, what are you learning about this outreach from the white house to don mcgahn. >> what we understand is within a day of the release of the mueller report, emmet flood, a top white house lawyer, the white house special counsel, received a request from the president that he ask don mcgahn to publicly declare in a statemen
an administration official revealing that the white house asked former white house counsel don mcgahn to say publicly that president trump did not obstruct justice and mcgahn refused. a source familiar with the president said he was upset with mcgahn's refusal. the story was first reported in "the wall street journal." "the new york times" has reporting that the white house made the request to mcgahn at least twice in the last month. mcgahn was a key witness for robert...
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the white house asserts that mr. mcgahn does not have to appear today because he is entitled to quote absolute immunity unquote from our subpoenas. we know this argument is wrong, of course, because the executive branch has tried this approach before. in 2007 president george bush attempted to invoke a similarly broad and unjustified assertion of executive privilege and asked his former counsel harriet myers to ignore a subpoena issued by this committee. ms. myers also did not appear at her scheduled hearing. judge john bates who was appointed by president bush slapped down that argument fairly quickly. quote, the executive cannot identify a single judicial opinion that recognizes absolute immunity for senior presidential advisors in this or any other context. that simple yet critical fact bears repeating. the asserted absolute immunity claim here is entirely unsupported by the case law, close quote from the judicial decision. in other words, when this committee issues a subpoena even to a senior presidential advisor
the white house asserts that mr. mcgahn does not have to appear today because he is entitled to quote absolute immunity unquote from our subpoenas. we know this argument is wrong, of course, because the executive branch has tried this approach before. in 2007 president george bush attempted to invoke a similarly broad and unjustified assertion of executive privilege and asked his former counsel harriet myers to ignore a subpoena issued by this committee. ms. myers also did not appear at her...
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things he said happened in the white house didn't happen in the white house. after saying that mcgahn is a liar, that the he lied to investigators which is a crime, the white house is also saying and don mcgahn is not allowed to speak to congress to clarify the record or to defend himself while he denounce him as a liar. i wonder if that creates yet another dynamic here that is almost unsustainable in terms of mcgahn going along with what the white house says. >> and yes, he shouldn't, rachel. i'm asking him tonight, be a patriot. be someone who puts your country above the lawlessness of this white house. again, this is a cycle that we see from donald trump. i'll show you my taxes, i just have to wait until the audit's over. you're never going to see my taxes. i'm going to order the secretary of treasury to not give them to you. i was exonerated. i was the most transparent president ever investigated. mueller can testify. mueller can't testify. mcgahn can't testify. this is just the cycle of donald trump. we're just, you know, we're not going to put up with it
things he said happened in the white house didn't happen in the white house. after saying that mcgahn is a liar, that the he lied to investigators which is a crime, the white house is also saying and don mcgahn is not allowed to speak to congress to clarify the record or to defend himself while he denounce him as a liar. i wonder if that creates yet another dynamic here that is almost unsustainable in terms of mcgahn going along with what the white house says. >> and yes, he shouldn't,...
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house counsel, served in the white house counsel's office. those two individual have said witnessed to some of the episodes detailed in the mueller report. democrats demanding more information. but, the white house has been moving to defy subpoenas, as we saw today, instructing don mcgahn not to show up to the house judiciary committee, despite facing a subpoena, and now democrats are threatening to punish mcgahn. >> mr. mcgahn, was it a mistake -- >> reporter: former white house counsel don mcgahn, will soon be held in contempt of congress, after president trump directed him not to comply with a subpoena, demanding he testify about potential obstruction of justice at the white house. >> we will not allow the president to prevent the american people from hearing from this witness. we will not allow the president to stop this investigation. >> reporter: the justice department said congress cannot compel former senior white house officials to testify about their interactions with the president. and republicans argued, it's time to put the muell
house counsel, served in the white house counsel's office. those two individual have said witnessed to some of the episodes detailed in the mueller report. democrats demanding more information. but, the white house has been moving to defy subpoenas, as we saw today, instructing don mcgahn not to show up to the house judiciary committee, despite facing a subpoena, and now democrats are threatening to punish mcgahn. >> mr. mcgahn, was it a mistake -- >> reporter: former white house...
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does the white house have a problem with mueller testifying? >> it hasn't been discussed at least around me. i haven't heard anyone speak out in objection to it. >> would the white house support mueller testifying? >> i'd have to ask the white house counsel and probably have to talk to the president about that. i think we are just taking these things in order. right now the democrats in the house are subpoenaing everything and threatening contempt and even some of them threatening to put people in handcuffs and hold them in jail so no one's quite talking about mr. mueller testifying yet but have me back on and we'll talk about that when that comes. >> you have a legal mind, though. for the sake of transparency, shouldn't the former special counsel sit before congress and answer the questions, clarify some of the confusion frankly we have seen in the past several days? >> there are some questions that i would like to ask him. he was given a task to either prosecute or decline prosecute and instead what the american people got for their $30 milli
does the white house have a problem with mueller testifying? >> it hasn't been discussed at least around me. i haven't heard anyone speak out in objection to it. >> would the white house support mueller testifying? >> i'd have to ask the white house counsel and probably have to talk to the president about that. i think we are just taking these things in order. right now the democrats in the house are subpoenaing everything and threatening contempt and even some of them...
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the white house is done. this is not something that the president is going to give the green light to. he didn't in 2016. he views the fact that he won without having to do that when it was considered at the time a pretty major step back from tradition has given him, any way, the reason to draw the conclusion i didn't need to do this in 2016. i'm not going to need to do it again in 2020. >> so, the president doubling down on it being litigated already. thanks to daniel, aswan, and jeff. >>> so, "saturday night live" poking fun at republicans asking the question what would it take to break with president trump. >> okay. this week president trump has escalated his trade war with china. it's estimated this will cost the country $1.4 trillion in market value. you all have opposed tariffs in the past. do you support the tariffs now. >> there's a simple answer to that. there was no collusion. >> okay. but i'm asking you about china. >> uh-huh. mm-hm. h. mm-hm. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, so you on
the white house is done. this is not something that the president is going to give the green light to. he didn't in 2016. he views the fact that he won without having to do that when it was considered at the time a pretty major step back from tradition has given him, any way, the reason to draw the conclusion i didn't need to do this in 2016. i'm not going to need to do it again in 2020. >> so, the president doubling down on it being litigated already. thanks to daniel, aswan, and jeff....